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"Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint."
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"But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition- and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation- and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity- the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."

"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."

"Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear."

"Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind."

"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."

"Better thinking out loud than suffocating from frustration. ['The upper lip must never tremble']"

"I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression."

"So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin."

"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."

"Speak life. Let your voice be heard around the globe. Speak into existence prosperity, peace, love, happiness. Allow yours words to transcend throughout space and time."
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"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."

"I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down."

"It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased."
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